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Brûlé - John of Heinsberg
| Issuer | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Year | 1419-1455 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A bold pattée cross occupying the full field, with a bishop's mitre depicted at its center. The arms of the cross extend to the inner border, dividing the reverse into four quarters. A circular Latin legend in uncial characters surrounds the design, identifying the coin as a new money of the bishop of Liège. |
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John of Heinsberg governed the Prince-Bishopric of Liège for over three decades, a tenure marked by persistent friction with the city's trade guilds and a costly entanglement in the dynastic politics of the Burgundian Netherlands. The brûlé — a low-grade billon small change struck across much of the southern Low Countries during the fifteenth century — was the workhorse denomination of daily market transactions, and Liège's versions circulated alongside those of competing ecclesiastical and secular lords in a notoriously fragmented monetary environment.
John was ultimately forced to abdicate in 1455 under pressure from Philip the Good of Burgundy.